Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 31, 1892, Page 10

FREMONT HOME PATRONAGE The Business Men of That Oity Meet and Organize, fOINING WITH THE STATE MOVEMENT ¥wo Hours Spent Among the Largest of Fromont's Faclories—Import Indus- trles That Should Be Well Sup- ported by the State. The manufacturers and business men of Jremont have declared themselves in favor of home patronage and aro taking steps to help on the movament. On Monday evening a large and enthusiastic meeting was held at the club rooms in Fremont, as alroady men- tioned in Tur Bee, at which definite action was taken. A decidod sentiment had been worked up in Fremont favoring the formation in that cliy of a manufacturers’ association, inde- pendent of the state association. The argu- ment in favor of this move was that such an organization could work for better freicht rates for I'remont while the state associa- tion would not be expected to look after such matters for the individual towns, but would confine its efforts to all legitimate objeots of the association, viz: the encour- agement of the consumption of Nebraska products by Nebraska peoplo. President Page, Secretary Bradloy and R. ¥. Hogin of the stale association were pres- ent and explained the objects of and aims of the movement and advanced numerous rea- sons why I'remont should join the state as- sociation and not attampt the work alone. For the purpose, however, of looking after freight rates and other purely local matters, decided to form a local assoclation, the same time to encourage the state ion, The following resolution was opted : Vyhal'rls, With much pleasure and profit to ourselves we have listoned to the repre- sontatives of the Nebraska Manufacturers and Consumers association, and, Whereas, \We realize the importance and uecessity of acting upon the general policy proposed by them, Be it Resolved, Thut as an organization we are strongly in favor of the purchasing of Ne- braska made zoods and shall work to that end, and urge upon our members such action 1n jotning such state association as their indi vidual interests may dictate. C. D. Mann, President, L V. 1. Humser, Secretary. The following Fremont manufacturers put tteir applications for membership in tho state association: Fremont Milling com- pany, flour, feed, etc.; Nebraska Creamery association: Nebraska Twine Binder com- Creamery Packago Maunufacturing company : E. T. Siith, fence factory ; Georgo F. Woiz, potato chips. Several other firms have the matter under advisement and have partially signified their intention of Joining the state association. Fremont Factories, Barly Tuesday morning the visiting officers of the state association and o vepresenta- uve of Tur Bek were met at the hotel and escorted through a few of the leading factorles, though the number visited was limited to the two hours available before the aeparture of the train for Omaha. However, enough was seen to convince any one that Fremout is already an important manufac- turing point. The first plant visited was that of the Ne- braska Binder Twine company, an institu- tion that cost $42,000, that employs sixty poople, giris, boys and men, that pays out $1,800 per month in wages and consumes the product of 2,000 acres of Nebraska land. They have suxiliary plants or tow mills at North Bend and the Godfroy farm. So little is generally known about this im- portant Nebraska industry that a detailed description may not be out of place. The Fremont factory manufactures twine from hemp, which yields the strongest fber grown, aud which 18 used for the strongest cordage in use. Otker fibers of which twine is made are products of tropical countries, and from their harsh nature require satura- tion with o1l to prevent breakihg, thus add- ing to their weight. Frebraska s especially well adapted to the growth of hemp which has proven to bea very profitable crop to the farmers. Hemp is sown broadcast in the same manner as grain and ufter the seed is placed in the ground no further cultivation is required. The plant grows to the height of from six to eight feet and the stgik is from the size of a lead pencil up to the size of a man’s finger. ‘The crop is cut with mowing machives and left spread out on the ground to rot. This loosens the bark containing the fiber from the pith of the plant and at the same time returns to the ground the gluten containea in the plant. Ior this reason it is said that hemp does not impoverish the land as rapidly as other crops. ‘When the plant is sufiiciently rottea it 1s cured and stacked in the sims manuer as d can then be held until jt is wanted tow mill. Tha twine company pays the farmer $ per ton for hemp and the yield per acre runs from two and a half to three tons, The first step in the manutacture of hem, is the separation of the fiber from tne woo of the plant. This operation is performed in the tow mill. Tho hemp straw, which looks like some kind of coarse weed, is fed into a series of breakers, which crush the stalks and separato the fiber from tho wood and pith, ‘The fiber comes out of the breakers in the form known as tow and can be sent di- rectly to the factory to by made into twine, or can be baled ‘and stored until wanted. ‘The wood and pith of tho stalk, known as shives and having no commercial value, are used for fuel under the boilers, thus solvin, the cheap fuel question in this branch o manufacture. In the twine factory proper the first opera- tion is performed by the two carding ma- chines, which remove the remaining shives from the tow. From the cards the tow is sed to the drawing frames, whoro the individual fibers are drawn out to their full length aud parallel to each other, the tow coming out from these machines in the shape of ribbons about three fuches in width, Ivis now ready for the spinning frames where it is twisted into twine. Then to the balling machines which roll it into five- pound balls, and then after being tested and sacked it is ready for market, ‘Phe company has & testing apparatus with which they try the teunsile strength of each sack of twine that leaves the factory. A test of at least eighty pounds1s required, but the greater portion of the twine turned out tests over 100 pounds. That tested in the presence of the visitors stood a strain of 112 The twine will run length 525 et to the pound or fifty feet more than any other twine, manilla not excepted, It has been proven beyond question 'th binding twine of the best quality made in Nebraska and it ouly remains to be seen whether the merchauts and farmers of Nebraska care enough about the prosperity of the state to give this important industry thelr patronuge, It 18 estimated that it would require four factories the size of that at Fremont to the supply state with binding twine, furthermore that $50,000 is sent out of the state in the course of single season for binding twine that ight be made st bome. As tbe acreage of ore pany 08 Of peo- ple are interested in this indusiry, as it em- ploys labor aud keeps money within the noL but the farmers ought to be especiaily Interested in it, as it gives th ol w w a profitable crop. It the merchants would urge the furmurs to buy Nebraska twine, end if the farmers themselves would iusist upon being supphed with the home artiole, this industry would become one of the greatest in the state. Tow mills, the machivery for which costs very little, cvould be estavlished av different stations throughout the state. The tow could be baled and shipped o the main fac- aud there made up into twine. Nebraska manufacturers were given the solid support of their own people they would 8008 become strong and large enough to coui- pote against the world, ana Nebraska farm- ‘ors could grow the hemp that would biud the grein of all the western states. Butter Tubs, ‘.mh‘r 1mportant industry . Fremont is on by the Creamery Package Manu- facturing compauy, who manufacture white ash butter tubs. T Icnlmay thirty-five men with & pay roll of $2,100 per mouth. m au opportu- They occupy threo buildings, one 30x100 feet, three stories and basement, another the same size, but only one story in height, and the third, 35280 foot, ore story. Their plant is supplied with the best and latest machinery known, and thoy have been able to supply & good share of the trade in their ine. Omaha butter packers are heavy patrons of this factory, one firm buying over 5,000 tubs in a single order. The method of manufacture is interesting, consisting of both hand and machine work, but the time for inspecting it was too limited to form a correct idea of all the details of the work and no description will be at tempted. The Creamery. A call was made at the Nebraska Creamery association’s plant, which is claimed to be the largest establishment of the kind in the coantry. Unfortunately they wero shut down for the day. They munufacture almost 500,000 pounds of butter in the course of the year, with a force of eight or ten people, The milk 1s brought in by farm wagons or shipped in from country stations and oach lot is tested to determine the percentage of butter which 1t contalns. On this basis the factory pays for the milk. This method of determining the value of milk will wake it an Inducement for the farmers to keep only such cows as yield the richest milk. In the way of equipment the Fremont creamery is unexcolled, and it is duo parily to that fact and partly to good management that the srmlucn of 1his factory meets with such ready sale. The Tron Works, The Fromout Foundry and Machine com- pany have a large plant for the manufacture of engines, boilers, elevator and mll ma- chinery, stamps, furnaces, ete. This being the dull season, they are employing only twenty-six hands, but during the summer they hiave forty to fifty men at work. This compuny makes quite & specialty of mining machinory and are now at work on some large ordors, Other Factories. The ¥'remont Milling company has a fine plant for the manufacture of tiour and feed. They run day andjnight with a force of eleven men and consumo in the course of the year about 200,000 bushels of grain. The Fremont Brewing company, with a cupital stock of $200,000, has just completed a model plant of the kind. Thoy expect to commence operations in about four weeks. E. T. Smith, fence manufacturer, has a large business in his line, Geurge F. Wolz manufactures potato chips. The necessity for manufacturers advertising themselves in some way was shown by the fact that one of the most active business men in Fremont did not know that there was such an ndustry in the city. 1t is said that tha only factory idle in Fre- mont is the only one that was brought o the city by a bonus. " There ave & good many more important in- dustries in Fremont that are worthy of an extended notice but there was not time to visit them. On the way to the depot the party stopped at the oftice of the Nye-Schneider company, which 1s one of the largest shipping firms in the stats, handling lumber, live stock, ete. They have live stock on the South Omaba market almost every day. Nebraska City Comes Forward, Seeretary Bradley of the Mauufacturers and Consumers association returned yester- day from Nebrasks City with applications for membership from seven of the largest manufacturers in that city. The following aro the firms, together with the number of employes: Necbraska City Cereal mills, soventy-three people, monthly pay roll $400. They have a capacity of 5,000 bushels daily. They manufacture hominy, grits, pearl meal, rolled oats, etc. They make a specialty of quailed rolled oats, which are manufactured by a new process that is said to impart a de- licious parched flavor. This company is doing a larga business in Omaha, The Otoe creamery, Allison & Gilchrist proprietors, embloy three people. McElheny Mavufacturing company turns out noveltiés such as reservoir flower pots, cob pipes and furniture casters. They om- ploy twenty-five people with a monthly pay- roll of $300. Nebruska Distillery company oceupy a four story brick 50x104 feet, besides smaller build- ings, elevator, cattle sheds, ete. Capacity of the plant 1,000 bushels or carn per day. They employ ninety-five paoplo and havo an apnual product of over $3,000,000, The Nebraska City 'Starch company has just completed 1ts piant and started up, Paul Schminke & Co., millers, employ goven peoplo and havea monthly pay roll of The Mattes Brewing company employ ten people with $500 per month on the pay roll. More Lincoln Men Join, Two more applications for membership have been received from Lincoln, the Ne- braska Mantel & Cabinet Works and the Purity Extract Co. The first montioned company employs six to twelve people. This gives Lincolu nine members in the steto association and makes a total membership of 164 manufacturers, This includes the twen- ty-two applications for membership received the'past weel. bt MRS P tronize Home Industry, and specify in your purchases that you want goods made in Nebraska factories ‘and pro- duced by Nebraskn soil. _All wniskies and spirits of any kind manufactured by Iler & Co. and the Willow Springs distillery are made in the state and from Nebraska grain. consuming 8,000 bushels per day. Insist upon your dealer furnishing homo made go0ds; they are equal to tho best and cost no more.’ Assist home industries. ———— BORN WITH THE CENTURY. An Ohio man, 93 years of age, has wricten to Dr. Winslow of Boston for tho latest In- formution 1n exploration, saylng.that bo is “still very much interested” in the subject. “Tho enemies of tobacco will not find much comfort in the case of James Cramer of Chi- cago, who died at the ripo age of 106 years, hoving usod the weed rogularly for ninoty- fivo years. Willism C. Murphy of Philadelbhia is & vigorous man of 82. He fought atand *'re- mombers” the Alamo. Marphy was ono of tho guards who had Santa Ana in chargo after the battle of San Jacinto. One bundred and two years measured the Iife of Moses Alkus, who' died at the home of his daughter in n Francisco. recently. Moses Alkus was born in_Oanassau, near Posen, Germany, in November of 1790, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Waliace, who died in Lexingtou, Mo., a few days ago, wis & cousin of Davy Crockett and claimed descout from the Wallace with whom the Scots bled, as Buras’ soug says. o lived 1o bo 95 years old. Joshua B, Wickham, who w: doubt the oldest man in Iow: tumwa, Jaouary 15. He was vorn in Frank- lin county, Virginia, 116 years ago. The his- tory of bis life is filled with enough romance to satisfy any novelist, Mrs. Bertha Jones, colored, died in St. Louls recently of senility, aged 101 years, She was born in middle Tennesses n” 1791, and was the mother of sixteen children. She was born a free woman, and was never a slave, although all of ber colored neighbors were, Rev. Dr. William Henry Furness of Phl delphia, who preached at’ All Souls' church, New York, last Sunday moraing, will be 90 vears old April 20, but there was no indica- Uon of infirmity in his sermon or its de- livery. His reading, helped by a voice of admirable qualily, has aiways been the de- light of the Unitarian body and 1t is as ef- fective now as ever. A South American newspaper tells of a man living in Sao Paulo, Brazil, who is co siderably over 100 years old and who is grow- ing young again. He has recently grown & new set of teeth, and his hair, which had turned gray, is now almosy black again. He is in active 'business as @ borso trader, and occasionally he rides over ten leagues in a day. Ho has been married three times, 1s now & widower, and 1s quite wealthy . beyond sll ied at Ot- ————— Spoopendyke Has Asthma and he spent thirty-two wminutes trying to tell his wife to go to thunder and get His for tle of Dixon's ! rought broth and & bair brush and thiogs, and Spoopendyke nearly died, but he got the Asthma Cure finally and then—well, I'm sorry for his wil ‘The editor of the £d; THE GRAND ARMY DEPARTMENT The Active and Varied Career of Elon @, Beers in the Army. KEARNEY'S CANDIDATE FOR COMMANDER The Alpha and Omega of War—Interesting Story of Wilmer McLean in Whose <e at Appomattox General Leo Surrendered. Vicksburg post G. A. R. No. 252, was organized at Strang, Octobor 25, 1887, with twenty-three members, but death and removal has reduced the ranks to nineteen. Prominent among the fow members of the post is Elon “G. Beers, present postmaster. Mr. Beers was born at Darlington, Wis., November 6; 1836, where he lived until the death of his enlistment, - April 22, 1861, in the Third Wisconsin infantry. He was alected corporal, afterward sergeant and then first sergoeant, finally promoted to second lieutenant for bravery and effi- cient serviceon the field, The regiment was assigned to the Twelfth army corps, Avmy of the Potomac. This was the regiment which arrested the secession- ist members of the Maryland legislature at Frederick, Md. It mightbe well to add, in this nnection, that only ten members and the chief clerk of the house were arrested, they being the par- ties who tried to get the legisiature to ratify the acts of the seceding states. Mr. Boers was with the regiment at the battles of Winchester, Cedar Moun- tain, Antietam, where he received a se- vere wound, Chancellersville, Beverly Tord, Gettysburg, besides in smaller battles and skirmishes at Bolivar Heights, Edenburg, Buckton Station, Newton, Second - Bull. Run, Chantilly, Germania Ford, Falling Waters and Raccoon Ford. This regiment was one of the details to New York to quell the draft riots August 5 to 20, 1863. After returning from the scene of the riots, it was transferred to the Twentieth coips then operating in Tennessee. Near- all the regiment re-enlisted the veteran service at Wartrace, Tenn., December 22, 1863, Mr. Beers was with the regiment at the battles of Resica, Dallas, Culps Farm, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Averysboro dand Bentonville, besides being en- gaged in the smaller battles of O ville, Pine Mountain, Pumpkin Vi Creck, Kenesaw Mountain, Sanders- ville, Hurrvison's Plantation, Argyle Island and others of minor importanct After reaching Washington the regi- ment was sent to Louisville, Ky., and held in reserve a few days as part of the force under General Sheridan, that was destined to drive the French forces un- der command of Marshall Bazaine, from Mexico. But it was finaily mu tered out of the United States service July 18, 1 Mr. Beers settled on the land adjoining what is now the town site of Strang in 1871, when buffaloes were frequently killed between there and Red Cloud, and all wild game was abundant, It is entertaining to listen to him tell some of his experiences in the early days of Fillinore county. Kearney's Candidate for Commander. The Grand Army of the Republic of Kearney will be largely represented at the department eacampment to be heid at Columbus Feburary 17, 18 and 19, as Sedgwick post No. 1 will .present. the name of Comrade R. Lafontaine for the honor of department commander. He was a member of Company I, Twelfth New York cavalry, which the late Colonel Savage of Omaha communded. . Comrade Lafontaine joined the Grand Army in Connecticut in 1868 and has been in good standing in the order ever gince. He came to Nebraska in 1877, is a good organizer, a competent,worthy gentlemen, and would be able to do the order much good. From Bul Appomattox, Colonel John A.Cockerill in the New York Commaveinl: In 1870, when 1 was the editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, Mr. Washington McLean brought to my office one day a geutleman whom he 1n- troduced as Me. A, D. Banks, of Mis- sissippl. Me. Banks served in various capncities in tho rebellion and -his ac- quaintanceship in the south was exten- sive. He had just been tell- g Mr. McLean some remark- able stories touching the war, and one so impressed -him. that he insisted upon its being repeated to me in order that it might find its wa) into print. Mr. Banks complied wit) the request, and J took notes on a strip of proof paper. Both Mr, Banks and Mr. McLean are dead. Looking over some old papers in my possession the other duy Fcumeupon tLese peneil notes of twenty-one years ago. Some portion of them are almost obliterated, and now that I have attempted to transcribe them I find myself embarrassed by certain signs and hieroglyphics whish may have been intulligiole then, but which are ob- scure and mystic now. But here is the war romance ns I am able to present it. At the beginning of the war of the re- bellion Wilmer McLean, then about 55 vears of age, & native of McLeanford, i"uir'nx county, Va., was residing on a small farm near Bull Run. When the confederate army concentrated on the lains of Manassas his house became the headquarters of General Joseph E. Johnston and General Beauregar In the battle which ensued soon after Mc- Lean performed efficient service, his knowledge of the loealit, proving valuuble to the confed- erate commaunders, He won the con- tidence of both Beauregurd and . John- ston. His home was burned -when the confederate forces fell back to the de- fence of Richmond, and he followed the wing which was sent to cover York- town. He was with General Johnston as a volunteer aid, when that officer was wounded at Seven Pines, in front of Richmond, For u season helived at Richmond, assisting in various ways to advance the confederate cause. After the second Bull Run fight and Antietam McLean proposed to A. D, Banke to go up into the neutral country in the norihern neck of Virginia and secure for the use of the confederate army some 80,000 bushels of wheat known to be there. This section of the state is com- sed of the counties of Westmoreland, r{oichmuud. Lancaster and Northumber- land. Itisa zu'l of the vast territory ceded by the king of England to Robert Carter, known in Virginia as “Kiog” Carter, because of his posséasions and the feudal m which he established there. Mclean’s scheme was to take a small steamer to Fredericksburg b railway, launch it in the Rappahannoc! and proceed to the wheat country. Everything was prepared, including sacks for the wheat. McLean asked for & small escort of troops to be sent u.lnu% to_protect him from strolling bands o! federal cavalry, and General Gustavus W. Smith sent Major Ball with four nnmrnluol cavalry and two pieces of lizht artillery, The dsy sfter the ar- rival of MoLean and his expedition at g, November 17, and py ] Frederieksbur, ok the head OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY., JANUARY 000 mod, cov(m(ndo.\ by General Sum- nor, ronché® “the opposite side of the Rappahannoglgand prepared to oross. Major Ball walted to advance, suppos: ing that H& Wha to do with a federal raid, for at thilh season of the year no- body anticlpated o general forward movement O “the part of Burnside. General CoticH of Sumner’s corps, who was in advaneey says that he would have crossed then if pontoons had been ready but the abseficgnt these and Major Ball gallant resistatice prevented, and wor was sont to Lee by his scouts of Burn- side’s movelfidiits ~Twenty-four hours later Longstreet's corps arrived, took position on Movges Hoights and began to for Buenside concentrated his army on the opposite side of the river and on Decomber 11 bogan his disastrous advance. The great battle was fought and McLean lost his boat and his sacks and his wheat, but he felt compensated he; the fact that his expedition had checked the crossing of the Rappahan- nock by Burnside's army and had en- abled General Lee to gain a great vie- tory. McLean drifted back to Richmond, re- joined General Joe Johnston, and when that officer was ordered to the west he accompanied him as an aide. He was with him in the beginning of the At- lanta campaign, but his health failing he retired and returned east. Weary of the war and its disasters he sought a retreat for himself and his family far from strife and the marshalling of armed men. With all the south to se- lect from he settled upon Appomattox court house. In this littte village of a dozen houses he selected the best—the only brick structure, But the fortunes of war soon brought the contending’ armies to his doors. Lee’s retreating veterans, heammed in by Grant and Sheridan, laid down their arms at Appomattox. The surrender of General Lee to Grant took place at McLean’s home on the 9th of April, 1865, and not under an apple tree, as erronevusly believed for a long time. And thus 1t was that the man who furn- ished a roof to the confederate com- manders at Bull Run—the first great battle of the war—provided also the roof under which the great general of tho confederacy signed the terms of capitulation. MecLean’s houses may’ be said to have been, so far as the war in Virginia was concerncd, the Alpha and the Omega. This is the conclusion of my notes, but I find at the bottom of them, in answer ! to my inquiry as to what had hecome of the romantic McLean, this entry: “I think he has zone back to live on theold farm at Manasses Junction.” Frem re- cent inquiry I find that McLean died soveral years ago. Turning to General Horace Porter’s very excellent description of the sur- render of Leo, published in the Century Magazine, 1 find much concerning McLean and his Appomattox home, He tells how McLean could not find a bottle of ink in his, house when it came to drawing up the terms of surrender, and how Colonel Matshall, Lee’s secretary, provided it ,fram a boxwood holder which he carried in his pocket. He tells, also, how the relic hunters de- spoiled McLean gn the afternoon of the day of the surrénder, and how General Sheridan set & good example by paying him 320 in gold for the marble-topped table at which Leée sat, presenting the same to Gener'al'Custer with a request that it be sent as his gift to Mrs. Custer. This induced General Ord to pay 340 for the table on which the terms of surren- der were signed, and at which General Grant sat during the famotis interview. I find this foot note at the bottom of a page of Genergl Portor’s narrative: ‘It is a singular historical coincidence that Meluean’s:former’home’ was upon a Virginia farm, near, the battle ground of the first Bull Rup, and his house was used for a time as the headquarters of General Beauregard. To avoid the act- ive theater of war he removed to the quiet villake of Appomattox, only to find hifaself again surrounded by con- tending armies. Thus the first and last great scenes of the war in Virginia were enacted upon his pronerty.” It will be observed that my notes were taken twenty-one years ago, and that the above paragraph, written by Gen- eral Porter only a few years ago, con- firms them. Iam happy to thus throw some light upon. the career of a man whose war romance is even more re- markuble thun that of the young Frenchman who, born near Charleroi, followed the campaigns of the first Na~ poleon from Ulm to Waterloo, d in the retreat was shot to death by one of Blucher’s dragoons in the garden of the cottage in which he was born. A Correction, NEMAHA CITY, Neb,, Jan. 22.—To the Editor of THE BEE: In your paper of Sunduy, Jaguary 10, In giving a sketch of the old soldiers of Nemaha City, G. W. Culp Post, No. 53,1 find that you made & mistake in regard to W. Had- lock’s army record. . 1 enlisted July 17, 1861, was discharged the 20th of February, 1865: served under Sherman most of the time; was under Fremoant in Missouri in the fall of 1861 and the next spring went down to Shi- loh and from that time on was with Sherman in the balance of his campaign to the time I was wounded; never served in the Army of the Potomac; [ was wounded four times, once in the foot at Kenesaw Mountain, January 28, 1864 losing one toe; again at or near Macon, Ga., on the 22d of November of same year; was wounded in the head and in the nose and in the right arm (in place of the left), a3 you stated in your paper, causing the amputation of my right arm at the shoulder joint, leaving no stump at all; at the same time I lost the use of my right ear, Tho shell that wounded me burst so close that it burnt most all the hair off from the front part of my head. My wrm,was taken off about 10 o'clock that nighy; I was put into an ambulance at daytight next morning and went on with thé rest of Sherman's boys to the sea and am here to tell about and advocate the good cause and vote as I shot. “ WerLrER HADLOCK, A One Wil Enough, In the current. discussion, the com- mander of the Grgnd Army of the Re- public is credited with the remark that “'the Grand Army nen will be found to be among the mast. conservative us to taking warlike afeps towards Chili, for the veterans ha een service on the field and they kuow the dreadful mean- 31, 1892—-SIXTEEN PAGE remomber myself when the rebellion opened how enger I was formy first fight,and 1 constantly fretted during my first six months of service because 1 was not in fight. But after I had seen my first fight my sentiments were decidedly changed, and my entire hope was that I might never see another. It is all non- senso for men to nasert that bravery and heroism take them into a fight. It is simply duty and foar that makes them face death on a battle-field. - You will find as a rule that the men who are the most extreme for war are those who haven’t seen the realities of war.” This statement is entirely true. Men who have had no exporience of the mis- ory of war want no more of it. If there shall be sorious trouble with Chili, vol- unteors in the army and navy will be young fellows, ardent and inexperienced loving adventure and fancying blood- shed glory. A — MEN OF OUR TIME, Prince Bismarck is fond of practicing with the revolver, and, old as he 18, can still make asplendid shot at a moving object. Roscoe Conkling used to be called a well- dressed sneor. Thomas B. Reed seems to be entitled to the sobriquet of genial sarcasm. Mr. Gorman is the only man, with one ox coption, who over' received & third term as Unitod States sonator from Maryland legisla- ture. Mr. Cleveland has gone to Louisiana to hunt game-on Joseph Jefferson’s plantation and to recuperato himself for hunting politi- cal game later in the year, Goneral Mitro has withdrawn from the contest for the presidenoy of the Argentin o Repubiic. . He thinks, with the poet, that o f all sad words, cte., ave these: It Mitre been, Judge Botkin of Kansas, 1t 1s claimea, can take three fingers of )-cent whisky every half hour and hit a 10-cent p1ece with his rifle at 100 yards, He is considered an honor to the profession. Captain Schloy of the steamor Baltimore thinks “‘the United States should treat Chili as an unruly ohild, and spank it,” andhe would like to assist in the operation with his steamer for just one hour. David B. Hill has twenty-two admirers in the Ohio legislature, whilo but eignt are for Cleveland. Of the republican mewmbers forty-tlireo uro for Blaine, sixteen for Har- rison and a fow scattering. Tho most important personage now at Monte Carlois Prince Victor Dhuleep Singh, but there are other visitors to the famous gambling tables who will bo singed just as much before the season is over, William S.. Haymond, a lawyer at Fair. mouat, W. Va., claims to be the youngest confedovate voteran, He was a courier on the staff of General Tmboden in 1862, when but ten years of aze, and at eloven held & commission as major. Dan Rice, who was a circus man before Barnum, and the groatest clown of the century, is engaged in the real estate busi- ness in New York sud has been making money at i He is devoting his time outside of his business to writing his memoirs. He expects to have them finished ia the course of two or three months. Charles Villiers, M. P., the “F'ather of the House of Commons,”” whose 90t birthday has been {ittingly honored, is neither a toetotaler mor an anti-tobacco man. Heis a jolly old gentleman, & porennial dinor-out, u lover of good wine and choice cigars, and has been a man about town ever since the reform bill struggle of 1832, Arabi Pashi, the exiled Egyptian mischief maker, lives on the island, of Ceylon amid cocoanut groves huunted by squirrels and magpie robins. He complains of the moist heat of his present home and compares it unfavorably with the dry warmth ot Egypt. The climate or some other cause has somewhat.impaired his health of late. Read these little three lines. Buy Cook’s Extra Dry Imperial Champagne if vou want a fine and delicious drink. CONNUBIALITIES. Love is a madoess, and oven the lover him- self is apt to admit it after thirty years. Paul du Chaillu, the explorer and’ story teller, says that while in -Africa he was offered 20,000 wives—S15 in one day. This world has always been full of contra- dictions. Solomon has always been called a very wise man, and yet Solomon had prac- tically 700 wives. Each of the five wives of a Georgia widower have died on Friday. He says that the old theory that Friday is uniucky is a silly superstition, An interesting marriage, to be celebrated in April, will be that of Mr. Carl Newnoff of Dresden and Miss Ruth Smith, niece of Mrs. Augustus Kountze of New York. The present which Mrs. Marshail O. Rob- erts gave to hor husoand, Colonel Ralph Vivian, on her wedding day was a lovely in- surance policy on her own life for §100,000. The question the maiden asks about her loveris: *How much does he yearn?’ The question ber sordid father asks about him is: “‘How muoh does he earn!” And sometimes they both get fooled. The king of the lobby on his way to Wash- ington to buy up congress never fely the im- portance of his mission half so much as the young man on his way to the jeweler's to buy his first engagement riag. The announcement is made of the betrothal of Arcbduchess Stephanie, widow of the Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria, whose death on January 30, 1880, caused such wide. spread scandal, ‘to Prince Miguel of Bra- “How did you and your wifo come LW remarry afler so many years of separation?’ Jimson: “Well, you ‘see, in the cross suits for divorce she made me out 50 bad and 1 made her out so bad that there wouldn’t anybody else have eitner of us.” Researches for precedents by which Prince Goorge, son of the prince of Wales, might be enabied to marry Priucess Mary, who was betrothed to the late duke of Clarence, have, it is sald, disclosed the rule that in the event of the ceath of her betrothed a royal princess must wait'five yoars before sgain becoming betrothed. Cards are out from Mrs, Catherwood of San Francisco for the marriage of her daugh tor, Miss Louise Catherwood, to Mr. Ernest La Montague of Far Rockaway, L. I. Miss Catherwood 15 said to be young, vrevty and possessed of many attractions and accom- plishments, but, unlike most California belles, sho is not an heivess. A bachelor’s idea of a married man is a fel- low pishing a baby carriage or clse walking A s nights with one of u pair of crying twius on each arm. A marriod * man’s ‘idea of & bachelor is a fellow sitting with his feet on the mantel and smoking a cigar, or else sewing buttons on his trousers with a badly, threaded neeale and a patience worthy of a better causé. And they're both wrong. “(31pis, wo are Just 21 and are ‘heart whole and fanoy free,’ "', excluims the editor of the Dublio (Ga.) Post. “Our father furnishes us with free board; our mother owns a gold mine, and we ‘staud in’ tolerably well. The only thing that we possess that will do to brag on fs @ heart, and it 18 big enougk to Jove s whole family, if necessary. Call early FOR AT REASONAB PRICES. that you may avold the rush.” One of the interestiug marriages of tho ast week was that of Mr, Clarence Bowan of g{u\v York city and Miss Roxanna Wentworth of Chicago, daughter of the late millionaire, known as “long John Wentworth.” M Wentworth looks so strikingly like My Cleveland she is often called “Mrs. Cleve- land’s double”” Miss Wentworth is im- mensely wealthy. The marriage wus sol- emnized iu Chicago. S Van HouTen's Cocoa. PLEASE READ THIS. OO Cents GOCOA (“Best a pound for VAN HOUTEN'S & Qoes Farth high. Let us compare it with the price of Coff 11b. of good cofiee costs at least 80c., wakes 31 half-pint cups. “ g ow 1 “ V. H. Cocor D Which “ oo « therefore 90c., 9 “ also 90c,, * 160 is the Cheaper Drink? " 93 cups of Coffee, 50 “‘V.H.Cocoal Sold by every Grocer. GOOD WORK LE ) DRBAILEY /| The Lieading Dentist, CALL AND EXAMINE OUR NEW METHOD OF REMOVABLE BRIDGE WORK OR TEETH . WITHOUT PLATES. TELEPHONE, - 1086. 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